Here's a handy two-part instructional activity that uses an article about plants to assess reading comprehension. After reading the passage, kids answer questions based on the information in the text.

Keep within a water budget. Learners find out that less than 2.5% of Earth's water is available to drink—and that there is a fixed amount of water. Scholars read an interesting article comparing the available water to a game of Monopoly...

New to constructed response question worksheets? Here's a model that demonstrates how to construct questions that require readers to interpret graphics found in informational text.